Conquering OtherWorld Starts With a Game Chapter 56: Undead Merchant Association

Upon discovering this alleged conspiracy, the casual player, who had stumbled upon the revelation, was livid and immediately abandoned his current quest, logged out, and went straight to the forum, ready to unleash hell.

Teacher Yu Chi was also seething. Her initial Potential hadn't been too shabby as she started off at 40+ points. However, because of her limited playtime, she hadn't reached 50 Potential value or leveled up yet. Seeing these two newcomers with such incredible Potential made her feel a grievous sense of injustice.

Everyone bought the same helmet and played the same game, so how could it be this unfair!

However, Teacher Yu Chi had spent enough time on the forum to know the nature of this game's development team. Since the launch, players had furiously complained about the abundance of repetitive grinding tasks, unfair randomness of initial Potential values, unreasonable quest designs, the difficulty of defeating monsters, inadequate storage space, and many more. Yet, regardless of how intense the criticism or how many pages a complaint thread reached, the official staff remained unresponsive.

Only when people came running to the forum begging for an account after seeing posted gameplay videos did the forum administrators spring into action and swiftly ban such accounts.

In short, the stance of the game development team seemed to be one of indifference, as if saying, "Play if you want, scram if you don't."

Given this track record, Teacher Yu Chi could easily predict the outcome of this "conspiracy": Even if players were to vent their anger and outrage on the forum, it was highly unlikely that the game development team would pay heed.

After all, the game wasn't officially launched, and players hadn't paid any fees to access it. The only expense incurred was the material cost of the login helmet.

In other words, players had no leverage, and they couldn't even resort to the ultimate weapon of giving downvotes.

Also, attempts to drive the game developers into a corner, such as a mass player exodu

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